Wolf Point

Shuttleworth, Red

ISBN 10: 162288275X / ISBN 13: 9781622882755

Published by Stephen F Austin Univ Pr, 2025

40 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.25 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __162288275X

Synopsis:

Wolf Point steps into the raw and rugged landscape where the beauty of desolation meets the complexity of human experience. Shuttleworth’s striking collection draws readers into a world where mirages shimmer at the edge of reality, and life’s stark truths are laid bare under the vast, open skies of a high-desert town. Through vivid imagery and profound emotion, Wolf Point explores the thin line between survival and despair, capturing the essence of the human condition in its most unguarded moments. From the haunting “Mirage at Graveyard-Border” to the poignant “When They Wash the Dead,” each poem is a journey through the heart of America’s forgotten spaces, where every crater-faced stranger, every piece of skittering debris, tells a story of endurance and loss. As Shuttleworth delves into the soul’s deepest recesses, from the despair of love lost in “Pocket Full of Quarters” to the eerie tranquility of “Likeness,” where past and present collide. It’s a world where autumn brings not just the miracle of changing leaves, but meteor nights and bone particles on the wind, where tattered missionaries and one-eyed kings roam streets that echo with the ghosts of the American dream.

About the Author:

RED SHUTTLEWORTH is the Western Heritage Wranger Award-winning author of Woe to the Land Shadowing: Poems. His Western Settings: Poems received the first Western Writers of America Spur Award. He was a 2017 Tanne Foundation Award-recipient for playwriting and for poetry, which funded the writing of Americana West: A Century of Plays and Monologues.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Wolf Point
Publisher: Stephen F Austin Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Brand New